Anna Laudel Düsseldorf presents multidisciplinary artist Lal Batman’s solo  exhibition "The Floor is Lava" as of December 1st, 2023 until February 4th, 2024. Inspired by common children’s games played in schoolyards,  the exhibition exceeds beyond the innocence of childhood games, to delve  into complex themes such as ridden anxiety, impending catastrophes, and  haunting memories which one is faced with throughout adulthood. Through  her art, Batman aims to explore the multifaceted aspects of the human  psyche and the anxieties that can manifest as people transit from  childhood to adulthood.

"This exhibition will make you feel like your feet were swept off the ground." Says Lal Batman about her first solo exhibition in Germany, Düsseldorf,  which includes artworks that will be unveiled to meet the audience for  the first time and differ distinctly in style and format from her  previous oeuvres. The artist creates a conglomerate of futuristic  landscapes, underworld scenarios, and fantastic imagery in her  sculptural and video works. All the while she maintains a witty and  ironic distance from the narrative content.  

Batman's self-composed soundtracks which highly resemble ASMR, induce  trance-like states in the audience, making them feel immobilized by the  screen. The sculptures in the exhibition, with their preposterous size  and mass, mirrors the bizarre, grotesque and also sinister games of  childhood, obstructing the audience's movement in the exhibition space. 

Batman’s  artistic practice also concerns the age of accelerating digitalization  and our interaction with social media. She parallels this reality, this meta-world, in her own work by alluding to the search for security, affirmation, relationships and expectations we foster by doing so. She  vividly communicates the human psyche’s need for love, tenderness and  harmony as well as the irresistible fascination for evil, horror and destruction. 

The audience will move through the exhibition more like crossing a floor transforming meter by meter into lava, drawing people in and out of  perilous yet intriguing dreams or nightmares. Lal  Batman’s work, presented for the very first time in Germany, can be seen in the playful and daring exhibition, “The Floor is Lava”, from December 1st  2023 until February 4th 2024 at Anna Laudel Düsseldorf.